Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:39:11 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: No DRM kernel support for i830 ? Message-ID: <20040812023911.GB89594@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20040811110731.GA74988@regency.nsu.ru> <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:20:11PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:07 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Judging from /sys/dev/drm/ contents, and listed kernel options in NOTES, > > there's currently evidence of support for i810/830 chips in FreeBSD, > > which (I suspect) is the probable reason why DRI is not enabled on my > > box (FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT from yesterday, latest X.Org). I also found > > traces of i810/830 support in FDo CVS > > (http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dri/drm/bsd/i830/), > > getting me to the fact that i8x0 files were removed from the BSD side, > > since they were not actually ported. (Unfinished? broken? unstable?) > > The i830 DRM stuff is ported in a branch of DRI, but it's not in DRI head > because of a security problem with the code. Thanks. That's a good info to start with. May I ask you the details of security problem you've mentioned, or at least some pointer in this direction? Appropriate maillist and/or google reference would be fine, I guess. ./danfe
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